The weeks are flying by and I need to make a choice about the location for my ‘residency’. At the moment I’m keen to use one whole day for exploration and observation – during this time I don’t want to […]
In the latest instalment of her monthly column on artists’ books, Sarah Bodman looks at some beautiful publications inspired by the works of the Bard ahead of this year’s Liverpool Artists’ Book Fair.
notes on Conversation Piece by Tom Hackett
I took the trail from Eden around Carclaze and over to Wheal Martyn, this trail skirts round three pits Carclaze, Baal and the mica dams. The ‘sky’ tip sits above Carclaze and can be seen from Baal and Mica – […]
‘Sky-tip’ my first sighting of the mines, rising up beyond the horizon. It emerges from the ground as a pyramid, one of many that once gave the name of the ‘Cornish alps’ to St Austell. Following the clay trail from […]
Work is underway on my collection of diagram poems and small “devotional object” sculptures for a small solo exhibition entitled This Wonderful Pile of Dirt which will be on display in The Allotment Gallery at Greenbelt Festival, Saturday 27th August. […]
I make films that manipulate natural vision – they distort what the eye would see in some way. Evidently this desire to alter the view is common to expanded cinema and connects it to non-figurative painting. Focus, perspectives, colours, footage […]
The outspoken artist and performer Liv Wynter is undertaking a residency at the artist-run Royal Standard titled HOW MUCH ARE THEY PAYING YOU? to coincide with this year’s Bloomberg New Contemporaries at Liverpool Biennial. Laura Robertson speaks to her about activism, artists getting paid, and remembering Ana Mendieta.
Finally getting nearer to understanding the EMG30 stepper motors and MD25 motor driver unit. Yesterday I used two Arduino serial ports for the first time. The MD25 was using the standard 0 and 1 pins (RX and TX) so I […]
Art Fund’s crowdfunding platform Art Happens, the first of its kind dedicated to raising money for museums, has clocked up almost £300,000 for 16 projects.
So we are sitting in the airport at Split and wondering about all the news that we have missed in the last week, but also reflecting on all the amazing experiences and conversations that we have had. It will take […]
So I have had quite a long lay off from writing. I have recently got married and now that the ripples from that amazing day have begun to settle I can now begin to focus on my drawings and indeed […]
Manchester School of Art graduate Becca Halliwell-Sutton has won the £20,000 Woon Prize, hosted by Northumbria University at Baltic 39 in Newcastle.
My A-n professional development bursary is currently funding a series of curatorial critique sessions focusing on the work made for my two solo shows of the first part of this year with invited curators across the country. So far I’ve had fantastically […]
this summer at the silk mill we’re cramming in as much as we can. our residency programme is also a partner programme in the maker ed: maker corps programme and i’ve expressed an interest in being part of the maker […]
The throwing classes at the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen have been going really well. I think a seed has been planted now and I want to continue making bowls. I can centre the clay on the wheel, throw and trim […]
So last Friday I opened the doors to a showing of process works from the project – my promise to the Arts Council. The purpose, to enable me to raise my game via peer comment. Based at my studios in […]
This week’s selection includes emerging Midlands artists working with photography, 500 years of painters’ paintings at the National Gallery, and Imran Qureshi’s work on paper and canvas in Cornwall.
My Dog ate one of my works yesterday. Today, that sounds slightly funny, but yesterday I was mortified. This is the trouble with working at home …. having to deal with everything associated with it. I do have a studio […]
